General view of Mount Agung during an eruption seen from Kubu sub-district in Karangasem Regency, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on November 26, 2017. Mount Agung belched smoke as high as 1,500 metres above its summit, sparking an exodus from settlements near the mountain.SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP/Getty Images

Erupting Bali volcano dusts resorts in ash, flights continue: A volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali has rumbled into life with a series of eruptions that temporarily disrupted some international flights to the popular tourist destination and dusted nearby resorts and villages with a thin layer of ash. Mount Agung erupted on Saturday evening and three times early Sunday, lighting its cone with an orange glow and sending ash 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) into the atmosphere. It is still gushing and the dark grey clouds are moving toward the neighbouring island of Lombok, a direction that is away from Bali’s airport, where nearly all scheduled domestic and international flights were continuing Sunday. Australian airline Jetstar, which cancelled nine flights to and from Bali on Saturday evening, says most of its flights will operate normally Sunday.

Pakistan Islamists rally on after deadly clashes with police: Pakistani Islamists pressed ahead with their rally near Islamabad in even larger numbers on Sunday, a day after clashes with police left six dead and dozens wounded. Angry protesters gathered on the edge of Pakistan’s capital torched a car, three motorcycles and a guard post erected near the rally site Sunday. No casualties were reported. Pakistani riot police and paramilitary troops were deployed nearby — apparently in preparation for another crackdown after security forces on Saturday failed to disperse supporters of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah party. But by midday, there was no action by the security forces. The demonstrators have camped out at the Faizabad intersection for the past three weeks, demanding the resignation of the country’s law minister over an omitted reference to the Prophet Muhammad in a parliamentary bill. The minister, Zahid Hamid, apologized for the omission — a phrase saying that Muhammad is the last prophet in Islam was dropped from the text — and said it was a clerical error that was later corrected. But the Islamists continued the rally, adamant that Hamid resign. “God willing we will get victory and will disperse with honour,” cleric Mohammad Shahid Chishti told The Associated Press as about 3,000 demonstrators gathered Sunday.

Pakistani protesters from the Tehreek-i-Labaik Yah Rasool Allah Pakistan (TLYRAP) religious group offer funeral prayers for a protester who was killed on November 25 during clashes with police in Islamabad on November 26, 2017.AAMIR QURESHI /
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4 dead in rollover crash on highway involving 5 vehicles: Authorities say a crash involving five vehicles on a California highway has killed four people and injured at least five others. KTVU reports that California Highway Patrol officials say a car travelling in an eastbound lane on Highway 80 in San Pablo crashed into another car on Saturday at about 8 p.m. Officials say the second car flipped over, landed in the westbound lanes and collided with three other vehicles. Officials say four passengers in the car that flipped over were killed, while the driver and other people injured were taken to an area hospital. Authorities say the person in the car that started the initial collision left the area, but was picked up later by officials. No additional information about the people involved in the crash was immediately available.

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